Still on the “show, don’t tell” crusade. A recent post on the blog LiveWriteThrive emphasizes how modern audiences are used to the action in movies, TV, and video games. They want to be part of that action and they don’t want to wait to enter into it. That calls upon us writers to get to […]

This week my craft work included showing characters’ emotions. Still drawing from the 12 Fatal Flaws, I battled with how a girl in Dahomey in 1760 or so might tell her mother that she didn’t want to be married off right after reaching puberty. The very premise stretches credibility. This was a highly structured, polygamous […]

This is the second installment of my New Year’s resolution to stay current on my blog. This week in the category of craft improvement I worked on executing gems of instruction I found in the excellent little book, Twelve Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing, C.S. Lakin, editor. I was working especially on the entries regarding […]

We finished the Christmas holiday with a 50th birthday party for my younger daughter, Tara. It was actually a family reunion, as she requested. About fifty people attended and Tara was thrilled. The timing was optimum, since cousins from all over the country, in town for the holiday, were able to make it. Back at […]